Re: #1029: USEFOR 3.2.2 References: Should comments be a MUST NOT? (fwd)

[Frank Ellermann <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Forrest J. Cavalier III wrote:

> 5. Agents MAY remove comments from References.

BTW, are you sure that we want this in USEFOR ?  The proper
way to generate and trim References is in USEPRO.  And if we
move this issue to USEPRO we could combine Bruce's 4th point
"delete SHOULD NOT" with your 5th point "agents MAY remove".

All we then need is a hint that the separator used to be SP,
now it's CFWS, and that's not the same as 2822 [CFWS].

Here's an idea of 4+5 in USEFOR-05

=== OLD ===
   o  Message identifiers MUST be separated with CFWS.

   o  Comments in CFWS between message identifiers can cause
      interoperability problems, so comments SHOULD NOT be generated,
      but MUST be accepted.


   references      =  "References:" SP [CFWS] msg-id *(CFWS msg-id)
                      [CFWS] CRLF
=== NEW ===
   o  Message identifiers MUST be separated with CFWS, typically a
      space or FWS.

   references      =  "References:" SP msg-id-list CRLF
   msg-id-list     =  [CFWS] *( msg-id CFWS ) msg-id [CFWS] CRLF
=== END ===

Your point 5 going to USEPRO, is that okay ?  Bye, Frank